Question

Finding closet div (in next column of a table) using jquery

     <td><input type="text" name="username" id="username" minlen=5 tabindex=0/></td>
     <td><div></div></td>

And i tryed

    $("#username").next("div").html("hai");

Which is not working

Answer 1

You should write:

$("#username").closest("td").next().find("div").html("hai");